Akamai EdgeSuite Selected by Japan's Largest Daily Newspaper, The Yomiuri Shimbun
CAMBRIDGE, MA and TOKYO, JAPAN - April 11, 2002 - Akamai Technologies Japan K.K. today announced that The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest daily newspaper with a total daily circulation exceeding 10 million, will deploy the Akamai EdgeSuiteSM service to ensure the reliability and availability of its Web site in the face of planned or unforeseen events.
"Visitors to our news site demand that timely content is delivered in a reliable, high-performance manner. In order to meet the demand for news ranging from domestic politics and economics to the international scene, we require a highly scalable and reliable network environment," said Tsuyoshi Ogura, deputy manager, Research & Development Department, Media Strategy Bureau, The Yomiuri Shimbun. "When the site is barraged by unexpected volumes of traffic, as in the aftermath of September 11, preserving the site's performance can be a problem. For this reason, The Yomiuri Shimbun has chosen to deploy Akamai EdgeSuite, which provides a stable infrastructure to ensure performance even in peak traffic conditions."
"In addition, when our origin servers are down due to planned maintenance or unforeseen events, our site remains available through Akamai's global platform," Ogura continued. "Akamai EdgeSuite ensures that we always serve the freshest content from an optimally-located server, reaching the end user in the most efficient way. With this ability to constantly serve users with critical news and information, we expect to increase the number of users who rely on our site on a daily basis."
"Akamai Japan is committed to assisting premier Web-enabled businesses like The Yomiuri Shimbun scale their Web operations via Akamai's global, distributed computing platform," said Makoto Naito, president & COO, Akamai Technologies Japan. "As one of the most widely-read news sources in the Asia Pacific region, we're pleased to extend the benefits of top-quality Internet performance and guaranteed uptime to The Yomiuri Shimbun, while simplifying its e-business infrastructure requirements."
EdgeSuite is an integrated suite of outsourced services designed to fulfill a broad range of e-business infrastructure needs, including content and application delivery, content targeting, and business intelligence, while providing unmatched scalability and continual uptime for an enterprise's global Web operations. As an alternative to traditional hosting infrastructure, EdgeSuite enables e-businesses to expand their online reach and reliability without the need for costly, international build-out.
About Akamai Technologies Japan K.K.
Akamai Technologies Japan K.K. is a joint venture between Akamai Technologies, Inc. and SOFTBANK Broadmedia Corporation, a subsidiary of SOFTBANK Group. Akamai Technologies Japan K.K. acts as the exclusive entity that sells, distributes, markets, resells and supports Akamai's secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software in the Japanese market.
About Akamai
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. These services and software enable companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure while ensuring unmatched performance, reliability, scalability and manageability. Akamai's services give businesses a distinct competitive advantage and provide an unparalleled Internet experience for their customers. Akamai's intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media, and application delivery comprises more than 13,500 servers within over 1,000 networks in 66 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services and industry-renowned customer care to hundreds of enterprises worldwide, including dozens of Fortune 500 businesses. For information on Delivering a Better InternetSM, visit www.akamai.com.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, general economic conditions, any material, unexpected increases in Akamai's use of funds, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, lack of market acceptance of new services, including EdgeSuite, a failure by us to successfully enter into any license, technology development or other technology partnership agreement within the time periods expected by us or at all, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
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CAMBRIDGE, MA and TOKYO, JAPAN - April 11, 2002 - Akamai Technologies Japan K.K. today announced that The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest daily newspaper with a total daily circulation exceeding 10 million, will deploy the Akamai EdgeSuiteSM service to ensure the reliability and availability of its Web site in the face of planned or unforeseen events.
"Visitors to our news site demand that timely content is delivered in a reliable, high-performance manner. In order to meet the demand for news ranging from domestic politics and economics to the international scene, we require a highly scalable and reliable network environment," said Tsuyoshi Ogura, deputy manager, Research & Development Department, Media Strategy Bureau, The Yomiuri Shimbun. "When the site is barraged by unexpected volumes of traffic, as in the aftermath of September 11, preserving the site's performance can be a problem. For this reason, The Yomiuri Shimbun has chosen to deploy Akamai EdgeSuite, which provides a stable infrastructure to ensure performance even in peak traffic conditions."
"In addition, when our origin servers are down due to planned maintenance or unforeseen events, our site remains available through Akamai's global platform," Ogura continued. "Akamai EdgeSuite ensures that we always serve the freshest content from an optimally-located server, reaching the end user in the most efficient way. With this ability to constantly serve users with critical news and information, we expect to increase the number of users who rely on our site on a daily basis."
"Akamai Japan is committed to assisting premier Web-enabled businesses like The Yomiuri Shimbun scale their Web operations via Akamai's global, distributed computing platform," said Makoto Naito, president & COO, Akamai Technologies Japan. "As one of the most widely-read news sources in the Asia Pacific region, we're pleased to extend the benefits of top-quality Internet performance and guaranteed uptime to The Yomiuri Shimbun, while simplifying its e-business infrastructure requirements."
EdgeSuite is an integrated suite of outsourced services designed to fulfill a broad range of e-business infrastructure needs, including content and application delivery, content targeting, and business intelligence, while providing unmatched scalability and continual uptime for an enterprise's global Web operations. As an alternative to traditional hosting infrastructure, EdgeSuite enables e-businesses to expand their online reach and reliability without the need for costly, international build-out.
About Akamai Technologies Japan K.K.
Akamai Technologies Japan K.K. is a joint venture between Akamai Technologies, Inc. and SOFTBANK Broadmedia Corporation, a subsidiary of SOFTBANK Group. Akamai Technologies Japan K.K. acts as the exclusive entity that sells, distributes, markets, resells and supports Akamai's secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software in the Japanese market.
About Akamai
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. These services and software enable companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure while ensuring unmatched performance, reliability, scalability and manageability. Akamai's services give businesses a distinct competitive advantage and provide an unparalleled Internet experience for their customers. Akamai's intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media, and application delivery comprises more than 13,500 servers within over 1,000 networks in 66 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services and industry-renowned customer care to hundreds of enterprises worldwide, including dozens of Fortune 500 businesses. For information on Delivering a Better InternetSM, visit www.akamai.com.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, general economic conditions, any material, unexpected increases in Akamai's use of funds, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, lack of market acceptance of new services, including EdgeSuite, a failure by us to successfully enter into any license, technology development or other technology partnership agreement within the time periods expected by us or at all, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
